| Jesus the Healer has never changed.
Hebrews 13:8
Malachi 3:6
James 1:17
God and Jesus have never changed. Their will throughout history is their will today. If it was God's will to heal the sick thousands of years ago, it is equally God's will to heal the sick today. If he was the Lord your Physician, he still is the Lord your Physician. If Jesus healed the sick during his earthly ministry, he still heals the sick today. Otherwise, he would not be the same Jesus.
No reasonable person can dispute that Jesus healed the sick in great numbers. The Scriptures that talk about this are too numerous to list here. You can refer to the New Testament Scriptures about healing. They will settle any question that Jesus healed the sick.
"Yes," you may say, "but Jesus is no longer on the earth as he was back then. We cannot go to him for healing today." No, you can't see him in person, but you may go to his Body, the Church. Jesus refers to believers as his Body. He is the Head and we are the Body. We are his representatives on the earth, authorized in his name to continue the works that he did on the earth.
Jesus made it clear that believers would continue the same works that he did (in his name) in John 14:12-14. This has always been his plan, even though it is never carried out in the majority of modern-day Christian congregations because of unbelief or lack of instruction.
Jesus still heals the sick through believers. He is still teaching us today. This is clear from Acts 1:1-2: "The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen." Luke's gospel tells us about many healings and miracles in Jesus' ministry as well as some of his teaching. However, Luke writes at the beginning of Acts that this is what Jesus began to do and teach before he was taken up. The clear implication is that Jesus is continuing to do mighty works and teach today after he has been taken up. It is still Jesus at work.
In Acts 3:1-16, Peter told the lame man, "In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk." Here he was doing the works that Jesus did, as Jesus said he would. Peter boldly declared to the Jewish leaders, "His name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all" (Acts 3:16) and "By the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole" (Acts 4:10). Peter made it clear that Jesus was doing the healing when his name was used.
In Acts 9:32-35, Peter told Aeneas, "Jesus Christ maketh thee whole: arise, and make thy bed." Peter made it clear that it was Jesus Christ doing the healing.
In Romans 15:18-19 Paul makes it clear that Christ himself wrought the mighty signs and wonders by him. Jesus is not only still alive today, but he is actively involved on the earth through his Body.
The same Spirit who anointed Jesus to heal the sick (Acts 10:38) is the same Spirit who dwells in every believer. Surely he has not decreased in power since then, and he is the one who quickens your mortal (subject to death) body (Romans 8:11).
So even though you cannot go to Jesus in the flesh, you can go to a member of his Body in the flesh, and that member is authorized to pray for your healing just as if Jesus were doing it himself. The member prays in the name of Jesus, and Jesus himself does it. (See John 14:12-14.)
Not only can you get your healing through someone else's ministry, you can also receive it yourself from God directly by believing in what Jesus did for you. This is the same way that you receive forgiveness of sins. This is the best way to receive your healing, but also the one that takes the most faith. Jesus was made sick in your place at Calvary, and you can be healed simply by believing in his substitution for you. Just as no one has to be there to pray for your salvation once you know how to be saved, no one has to be there to pray for your healing once you know that you can receive it for yourself.
Since Jesus is the same today, he desires to heal the sick just as much today. He has no less compassion on you than he had on the sick people during his earthly ministry. He has not changed since either his earthly ministry or the Book of Acts. If we are not seeing miracles today as we should, it is because we have changed, not because he has changed.
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